The Big E
Everything is Energy:
Unleashing the Power of Everyday Wisdom
Also by Jarrad Hewett
Love, Life, God: The Journey of Creation
Also by Dee Wallace
Conscious Creation: Directing Energy to Get the Life You Want
The Big E
Everything is Energy:
Unleashing the Power of Everyday Wisdom
By Jarrad Hewett and Dee Wallace
Copyright © 2010 by Jarrad Hewett and Dee Wallace
Property of Legacy Publications and New Earth Productions
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Dedications
This book is dedicated to my wonderful family and friends, past, present, and future. You have touched my heart and blessed my life in countless ways. I love you all.
Jarrad
Dedicated with love to my family and friends
Dee
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
The Left Hand Doesn’t Know
What the Right Hand Is Doing 7
Today is the First Day of the
Rest of Your Life 9
Don’t Worry, Be Happy 11
Shit Happens 13
That’s Just the Way it is 15
That’s the Last Straw 17
Dare To Dream 19
The Sky Is the Limit 21
Let Bygones Be Bygones 23
The Road to Hell is Paved
With Good Intentions 25
Cast Not Your Pearls
before Swine 27
Chance Favors the
Prepared Mind 29
The Early Bird Gets the
Worm 31
There’s More than One Way
to Skin a Cat 33
Look Before You Leap 35
It Must Be Nice 37
There Is Harmony in
Disharmony 39
Live and Let Live 41
That’s a No Brainer 43
An Idle Mind is the Devil’s
Playground 45
If The Cap Fits, Wear It 47
Better Late than Never 49
Laughter Is the Best Medicine 51
You Have To Walk Before
You Can Run 53
Like Father, Like Son 55
Like Water off a Duck’s Back 57
Many Hands Make Light Work 59
Never Judge a Book by its Cover 61
No Pain, No Gain 63
You Can’t Make a Silk Purse
Out of a Sow’s Ear 65
There Are No Victims,
Only Volunteers 67
We Shall Overcome 69
Never Put Off Till Tomorrow
What You Could Do Today 71
You Can’t Have Your Cake
and Eat it Too 73
A Watched Kettle Never Boils 75
Beauty is in the Eye
of the Beholder 77
Up The Creek without a Paddle 79
Talk of the Devil, and
the Devil Appears 81
You Can’t Have it Both Ways 83
Knowledge is Power 85
Misery Loves Company 87
Jack of All Trades,
Master of None 89
No Man is an Island 91
Nothing Ventured,
Nothing Gained 93
One Doctor Makes
Work for Two 95
Out of Site, Out of Mind 99
Paddle Your Own Boat 101
People Who Live In Glass Houses
Shouldn’t Throw Stones 103
Power Corrupts While Absolute
Power Corrupts Absolutely 105
Tomorrow is Another Day 107
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth 109
No Man Can Serve Two Masters 111
Just Whistle A Happy Tune 113
Always Look On the Brighter
Side of Life 115
I Used to Think I Had it Bad
Because I Had No Shoes 117
You Can Lead A Horse to Water,
But You Can’t Make Him Drink 119
When Life Gives You Lemons,
Make Lemonade 121
If At First You Don’t Succeed
…Try, Try Again 123
If It Ain’t Broke… Don’t Fix It 125
Progress, Not Perfection 127
Be Careful What You Wish For,
You Might Just Get It 129
A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned 131
All’s Well That Ends Well 133
This Too Shall Pass 135
Pride Comes Before the Fall 137
Beggars Can’t Be Choosers 139
You Can’t Teach an Old Dog
New Tricks 141
What You Think Is What You Get 143
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining 145
God Cures, And the Physician
Takes the Fee 147
He Who Hesitates Is Lost 149
Half a Loaf is Better Than None 151
Health Is Better Than Wealth 153
Desperate Times Call
For Desperate Measures 155
Birds of a Feather Flock Together 157
Fools Rush in Where Angels
Fear to Tread 159
Forewarned is Forearmed 161
If Everybody Jumped Off a Cliff,
Would You? 163
Do What You Love
and the Money Will Follow 165
God Helps Him Who Helps Himself 167
Ignorance Is Bliss 169
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got
‘Till It’s Gone 171
When You Lie Down With Dogs,
You Get Up With Fleas 173
He Who Lives By the Sword,
Dies By the Sword 175
Good Fences
Make Good Neighbors 177
A Merry Heart Makes a Long Life 179
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 181
A Good Beginning
Makes A Good Ending 183
A Fool and His Money
Are Soon Parted 185
Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged 187
Out of the Frying Pan
and Into the Fryer 189
Actions Speak Louder Than Words 191
The Grass is Always Greener… 193
Don’t Make A Mountain
Out of a Molehill 195
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff 197
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
is Fear Itself 199
Pretty is as Pretty Does 201
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees 203
When it Rains, it Pours 205
A New Broom Sweeps Clean 207
Sticks and Stones May Break
My Bones… 209
There’s No Time Like the Present 211
Absence Makes the Heart
Grow Fonder 213
After a Storm Comes the Calm 215
A Guilty Conscience Needs
No Accuser 217
Closing Comments 219
About the Authors 221
Introduction
For those of you new to quantum physics – like we were not too long ago – here are some basic scientific (AGHHH!) principals that will help you understand how energy works:
The first thing we need to understand is that everything is energy – from your Aunt Clara’s cat to the cabinets in your kitchen.
That sounds kind of strange, but let’s look at it this way: all matter – including us – is made up of atoms (protons, neutrons, and electrons) which are all just varying forms of the big E: Energy.
When we can look at everything as just a part of the big E, we begin to see how amazingly connected everything truly is. It’s like that old song, “The knee bone’s connected to the… something bone” (I never really paid that much attention), only in this song, the thought bone is connected to the belief bone (which is connected to perception, which is connected to direction, all the way down to manifestation). With this understanding, we’ve begun to look at our world a bit differently. Science is learning that what we focus on is what we create in our lives. So, from a fat butt to a fat wallet, you can literally change energy with your focus.
In other words, when you feel joyful, your E (your Energy) is vibrating with joyful frequencies; you actually become a joyful vibration. How cool!
Guess what? It gets even better, because when you’re in your joy, you’re able to love yourself – and the world – even more, and as you focus on this joy and love, guess what? More is created – and when you can become the experience of love and joy and focus that love and joy into creating what you want, watch out! The Sky is the limit.
The quickest way to create what you want is to be in a high vibration (love/joy) and to consciously focus, direct, and allow the big E to bring it right to you.
More simply, be happy, say what you want, and go have fun!
Here are the basic FUNdamental steps in creating what you want:
Choose to get off your butt – nice butt though it is – and go get what you want.
Remember, creation is about choice, so choose to choose so we can get on with it.
Know what the heck it is you want.
If you already know what you don’t want, choose the opposite and try that.
Keep Focused on what you want.
Eat it, drink it, sleep it, dream it… and don’t let the bed-bugs bite.
Feel good, happy, and excited.
You know what gets you there; go do it!
Love yourself, and let others love you.
Love conquers all. (Go love!)
Allow.
Allow everything you’re asking for to come to you easily, effortlessly (did you catch that?), and joyously.
Allow others.
Don’t judge. Don’t save. Don’t manipulate. Like that one guy who used to have a band said, “Let it be.”
Now, as you begin reading, you may find yourself saying, “Well, what the heck does that mean?” Look at you, you instant manifestor. Ask, and you receive!
Vibrations – What you give forth, or emit, through your energy
Manifestation – The demonstration or materialization of something
Focus – What you think about, dream about, want, are in fear of – anything that you “look at” consciously or unconsciously
Create – Anything you bring into existence/into your reality; Love/Jealousy/A New Car/A Great Mate/A Million Dollars
Energy – All that is -- Everything that exists
Directing Energy (“The Big E”) – Energy is everything. You change energy through choice, direction, and action. Like the transformation from water to ice or steam, The Big E responds to your direction with no judgment.
Perspective – The view of everything in life from the unique vantage point of your own personal experience
Polarities – Direct Opposites
Ready to see just how much of an amazing creator you are?
You said, “Yes,” right?
Whew!
(We were going to start anyway.)
Let’s begin by taking a look at all of those wonderful, cool, old clichés we’ve all grown up hearing, and re-examining them using a brand new understanding: Everything is energy – from here on out, known as “The Big E.”
Get ready to let go and re-know what you already knew. Ya know?
Turn the page, and let’s get started!
“The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What The Right Hand Is Doing.”
What a way to start! This is the perfect metaphor for our conscious and subconscious minds. If only they communicated and worked together a little more.
Let’s take a peek into our mind and see just how these two work:
Conscious Mind:
“I want it! I’m going to get it! I’m going to work hard and be responsible and manipulate things so everything goes my way! I can do this if I work hard enough.”
Subconscious Mind:
“Be careful! Do you really want this? Maybe it’s not the best thing for you. Why do you think you can do this, anyway? You’ve worked hard plenty of times before and never gotten what you want. Ah…what’s the use?”
Imagine how much faster we could institute change and manifest our hearts desires if our conscious and subconscious minds worked together in harmony.
Become conscious of what your subconscious mind is focused on by being aware of your thoughts and feelings – those feelings are indicative of your vibrations, and they will serve as a great guidepost to creation.
“Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.”
This is so true… unless you’re dead. But if you’re dead, you’ve probably got better things to do than hang around here and read this book (all though, we don’t mind).
No matter what you’ve done in your past, today is a fresh start. Who you were yesterday is not who you are today. How could you be? In creation, “yesterday” might as well be a whole other lifetime, because you can’t create today from yesterday. The only place in which you can create is present time – where it’s always time for a present!
So many of us create today based on the stories and labels we’re still holding onto. We try to define who we are and what we do. We put ourselves in little tiny boxes and file ourselves away under an infinite amount of categories and subtext.
The truth is, we are beings at choice, and when we can choose to say, “I love myself” and truly move into the power of divine love, you and I will have the power to start fresh because divine love is like the ultimate toggle switch – no matter where you are in life, it allows you a clean slate.
From the standpoint of The Big E, we are releasing the story of who we are and we are creating (as opposed to re-creating) who and what we are in this very moment – which is the moment that will shape the next, and the next, etc.
Here, try this on for size: In the presence of love, I release all definitions of self and other. I lovingly embrace that all are one, and I let go of my story. Today, I AM That I AM. Today, I surrender to the moment. Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
“Don’t Worry. Be Happy.”
This is perhaps one of the simplest, yet most powerful choices in creation (and thanks to Bobby McFerrin, it’s also fun to rock out to). The vibration of worry not only causes us to focus on the opposite of what we truly want, but it also causes us to just feel plain gross. In a universe where we create what we focus upon, worry is the result of fear and only serves to keep us small and in lackmall and in lack. We fear there won’t be enough money, enough time, enough US. Some of us worry from the opposite approach – “Oh my gosh; it’s really happening.” This is really the same vibration of fear and mistrust.
When we can be in a vibration of happiness, the message is sent out to the universe that fear is not what we want. We are consciously telling ourselves that we are not victims, but that we are creators. We are choosing to focus our energy on what it is we want, rather than on what it is we don’t. And in THIS moment – the moment of now, which is the only moment we create in – choose to be happy.
“How can I choose to be happy when my life is seemingly in chaos?” says someone whose life is seemingly in chaos.
The answer is love. Think of a moment of total happiness. Love yourself enough to feel your way to a happier thought. Reach out into the infinite field of potentials that you are and know you are loved. Think of a baby, a sunset, a new car – whatever it is that will elevate your vibration. Carry that vibration of joy, of happiness, of safety, of love, and from that vibration, know that whatever you wish to be, you will be. The key here is to remember that now is the moment from which you create all others.
Today is a gift. How will you choose to spend it?
“Shit Happens.”
I have a friend who once had a tree fall on her house. Her neighbor came over and, trying to ease her mind, looked at her and exclaimed, “Ya know, shit happens.” Without missing a beat, she looked him dead in the eyes and said, “Yeah? Well, I sure wish shit would have happened on your house.”
“Shit happens” is the ultimate statement of a victim consciousness, and most of us have heard it all our lives. Some of us have even taken it a step further by stating, “Shit happens, and then you die.” With this idea, there is an expectation that bad things are going to happen no matter what we do. More importantly, there is an acceptance of this belief that literally serves to continually create random instances of total shit. The belief behind this self-feeding cycle is one of powerlessness: “I am a separate being who is at the mercy of a greater outside force.”
What we must realize then, is that in a world of one consciousness, there is no separation. Everything is part of The Big E. There is no such thing as a random occurrence. There is no outside force. Therefore, the only shit that happens is the shit we create.
If something “crappy” comes into your consciousness, turn your frown upside down. Wherever there’s shit, there’s usually a pony – and who doesn’t like ponies?
“That’s Just the Way it Is.”
“Shit happens” has an ex-wife named “That’s just the way it is.” They were married for many years, but one day, “that’s just the way it is” fell in love with a higher vibration, and that was the end. The relationship between these two was interesting – if not codependent - to say the least. You see, while with Mr. Happens, “That’s just the way it is” was constantly re-enforcing his belief, and so, the two went through life constantly dodging trees because Mr. Happens was holding the belief and the expectation that were causing the trees to “randomly” fall.
One day, however, “that’s just the way it is” realized that she was her own creator, and that her thoughts created her reality. You see, “Mrs. Is” was giving her creation over to whatever energy she was around, and not claiming her own power. The day she realized that she had been giving her power away, she saw her husband for what he was – just a belief. When she was able to see that, she was able to re-claim her own power and fall in love with herself.
Now, she loves herself, and remains in the knowing that she is always taken care of because she is the only one who can create her world – because… that’s just the way it is.
“That’s The Last Straw.”
We’ve all said it:
“That’s it; I’m not going to play this game. I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
Oh, if only that were true. If only we were done playing the game.
But alas, most of us LOVE to hold on to grudges. We love to stay in the anger and judgment and wallow in our stuff. Our anger keeps us in a place where we’re constantly being buried under the weight of more and more straw. In truth, that final straw is really just an opportunity for us to shift our focus and really move on to what we want, and the only way to do that is to learn our lesson and love ourselves enough to let go and move on.
If we can’t do that, that last straw won’t just break the camel’s back - it’ll break ours.
“Dare To Dream.”
OMG! How sad to think someone actually had to give this direction to another human being. It is the very core of creation.
As the song “Happy Talk” from South Pacific states, “You’ve got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”
The Dream is the desire and the seed that eventually grows into the THING!
So, why would anyone dare NOT to dream?
Well, it’s safer, for one thing. If we don’t dream, we don’t risk our dream not coming true. We also get to remain in our “crap” and gain sympathy and camaraderie from our Birds of a Feather Friends who are not daring to dream either. We also get to remain “powerless” over our lives – which is sometimes a whole lot easier (and much more acceptable) than knowing that we are our own creators.
As Maryanne Williamson said, “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” What if we DO create the dream we dared to dream?
Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. Like an over-stocked candy store, our dreams are filled with every delicious treat we could ever imagine, and imagining them is the first step in getting a vision for what we want to create. All we have to do is dive in, and dare to dream.
“The Sky Is The Limit.”
Literally, there are no boundaries to what we can imagine and create. The Big E is here to give us everything we want, and like a good actor, the Big E follows directions to a T and will always deliver the performance we ask for.
The Universe is truly limitless and without judgment. The Big E will give us everything we ask for without thinking we are selfish, unworthy, or even unappreciative – those are all labels spawned from guilt, and the Big E won’t give us guilt unless we ASK for it (AKA direct it to match our belief).
Here’s the thing about guilt, we usually don’t let it in unless someone else has told us we should. Guilt is simply a self-propelling idea. Letting someone convince us that we should feel guilty for going for our dreams doesn’t serve us, it serves them. It validates their own belief systems about guilt, which they probably got from somebody else, who got it from somebody else, or society, or through their own fearful thinking.
So open your arms, and let love in. Let abundance in. Follow your joy. Be like a child, and ask for every little thing you want! The Universe is abundant. There is more than enough. All you have to do is ask.
“Let Bygones Be Bygones.”
Most of us would like to make bygones – stay gone! Energetically, a stay gone is an oxymoron because if we are focused on something staying gone, we are still focusing on the thing that should be gone – thus bringing more of that thing into our existence.
So, why do we hold on? What kind of ride do we get to take by keeping our focus on the things we don’t want? Well, to answer those questions, we have to ask a few more: “Who are we really hurting by holding a grudge anyway? Whose feelings are kept out of joy, and whose focus is kept off of creating happiness?
The answer is: OURS!
Look at it this way:
Holding the junk:
Makes us unhappy
Keeps us focused on what we DON’T want (which is more of whatever we’re trying to let go of)
Keeps our vibrations in judgment, anger, revenge, lack, etc.
Keeps us STUCK.
Whatever nasty things you’re lugging around, get rid of it. Let go, and let The Big E start working for you!
If you can choose to say “bye” to all of your baggage, it’ll have no choice other than to be gone. Turn to that baggage and repeat after me, “Buh-Bye!” It’s that easy if you’ll let it be.
“The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions.”
Do I need special tires for that?
This one can be kind of confusing – especially if you’re under the impression that doing good is, well, good.
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, what’s the road to heaven paved with?
Well, the answer is, “the same thing.”
The message here is that wanting to good isn’t enough, and that sometimes trying to do “what’s right” or “what’s good” can get us in a whole heap of a mess. When someone has a good intention which translates into an action everyone approves of, ‘bravo!”